Our Smoothing Dream Fabric ™ is from Italy. We are using it for a few very specific and awesome reasons. You can count on this fabric to be compressive (when wet & dry) and for smoothing coverage... read: it will hide any cellulite and feels like b-u-t-t-e-r on the body. It will hold up to sunny conditions without fading and handle that chlorine to salt water and even hot tub life. And it’s snag resistant too, because sometimes a girl has to sit on the pool deck - right?